{"id":134465,"date":"2011-10-11T15:15:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T10:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=134465"},"modified":"2011-10-11T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T10:17:03","slug":"turkey-urges-french-politicians-not-to-exploit-armenian-genocide-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/11\/turkey-urges-french-politicians-not-to-exploit-armenian-genocide-issue.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Urges French Politicians Not to Exploit Armenian Genocide Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the view of upcoming presidential elections, the Ankara government has urged French politicians not to use Turkey as a tool in their campaigns following both French President Nicholas Sarkozy and prominent Socialist candidate Fran\u00e7ois Hollande &#8220;exploiting Armenian Genocide claims&#8221; last week, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/n.php?n=turkey-no-election-tool-ankara-tells-french-rivals-2011-10-10\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">the H\u00fcrriyet Daily News reports<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s Ambassador to Paris Tahsin Burcuo\u011flu expressed Ankara\u2019s uneasiness with Sarkozy\u2019s remarks in a meeting with the French President\u2019s foreign policy advisor Jean-David Levitte on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Burcuo\u011flu sent a letter to Hollande urging him to avoid making Turkey a daily domestic political issue after the prominent socialist candidate promised backing the draft of a law criminalizing denial of the Armenian Genocide, the H\u00fcrriyet Daily News learned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message we have conveyed does not solely refer to Sarkozy, but to the entire French political class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have underlined that this kind of rhetoric does not serve anything other than to ruin our bilateral relations. We want to improve our relations, but these statements are not helpful to this end,\u201d the senior Turkish diplomat told the paper yesterday.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the view of upcoming presidential elections, the Ankara government has urged French politicians not to use Turkey as a tool&#8230; <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14786,10372,10790,32631,33311,33313,13793,33312,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}